Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Garden plans for 2011 & what's growing now

I've just got back from a week's skiing up in the Swedish mountains with a stinking cold, so I'm using the bed-bound time to trawl through seed catalogues. Such a hardship :)

I'm actually going to try and grow some flowers from seed this year. Now that I've been at it a couple of years, I should succeed with some at least. Seeds ordered: Poppy Lilac Pompom, Burning Bush, Dimorphotheca White, Cornflower Blue.

On the veg/fruit front the chilli season has already begun. The four plants I sowed on the 23 November are looking happy:

And I sowed another 8 seeds yesterday (4 Hot Paper Lanterns and 4 Bih Jolokias). This time I sowed them onto kitchen paper in freezer bags because the Bhut Jolokias (similar growing instructions) I sowed in November never appeared.

I've also got a box of button mushrooms growing in one of the bathrooms. Very exciting.

About Me

Having been city dwellers most of our lives, the move to the countryside in the autumn of 2008 came as a bit of shock to my husband and I. Four years on and we're loving every minute. I've swapped my heels for Hunters and the take out menus for packets of seeds. I'm going to try and use this blog as a diary and a record of everything that goes on out here. I should perhaps add that I am English (married to a Swede - not of the vegetable variety), which is why I blog in English...